Daily Archive: Sunday, March 18, 2007

Despite the fact that he is, by his own admission, a man with an unfailingly positive outlook on events, even President Jagdeo might have succumbed to a stray negative thought or two on receipt of some recent news.

Ireland’s cricket team made St Patrick’s Day one of the country’s most memorable holidays for the year when they upset Pakistan to record the country’s greatest day in the sport yesterday.

Even given the recent acrimonious history between the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) and the West Indies Players Association (WIPA), it is utterly unbelievable that their latest, unnecessary dispute should arise during the staging of our own World Cup.

Two former national basketball players who are domiciled in the US Leon Christian and Karen Abrams have a vision to lift the standard of basketball in high schools across Guyana and have started taking the steps necessary to turn that vision into reality.

Shivnarine Chanderpaul feels he is due for a big score and does not think his form has deserted him as he prepares for West Indies’ second World Cup game tomorrow.

Dear Editor, Your newspaper published on Thursday March 15, 2007 a report captioned “Aid for Great Flood was almost $204m – Singh.”

Dear Editor, You have done it again. Once again you have missed the marvellous opportunity of using your front page to bring joy and hope to your readers.

Dear Editor, When an educator called me a few weeks ago to ask my opinion on whether he should cut the tail off his Doberman, I was totally taken aback.

Dear Editor, In a letter under the caption “Phone companies should give incentives to loyal customers” (07.02.28) K.

Dear Editor, The tale of the son of Mr. Reepu Daman Persaud’s sudden appearance as the “businessman” that will be supplying the government with BMWs for CWC cries out for the presence of someone like Eusi Kwayana in this country.

Introduction Last month I was present at the Rotary understanding dinner where the President of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Justice Michael de la Bastide gave the main address.

For more than two decades the region has been searching for a viable aviation policy.

I read poetry for pleasure – otherwise, why read it? But I find all the time that poetry also is relevant in defining or highlighting what is going on around us every day.

How many times have you seen a wrinkled, grey-haired, elderly lady walking about with a stooped posture?

Declarations like these are never straightforward or unproblematic and there is always a considerable and persuasive challenge from Port-of-Spain, but Kingston is still regarded as the cultural capital of the English-speaking Caribbean.

March 15 is observed by Consumers International (CI) each year as World Consumer Rights Day.

A few weeks ago I noticed several Talipot palms in flower in and around Georgetown.

You bump into her on the street, at the supermarket or at a party.

My sister woke up yesterday and the left side of her face is droopy and the eyelid is closing down.

Let’s get one thing straight: Heartworm in dogs (cats) should only be treated by a qualified veterinarian.

Culinary Delights II ( Georgetown : The Women’s Club of the Indian Cultural Centre) ‘Fainting Imam’ is the name of one of the interesting recipes in Culinary Delights II, the second edition of a collection of recipes edited by the Women’s Club of the Indian Cultural Centre of Guyana.

Thousands of years ago, power was gained mostly through physical violence and maintained with brute strength.

The Ukranian chess player Vasily Ivanchuk, who keeps climbing in and then being thrown out of the world’s top ten, gives a splendid performance in the following game.

Today’s column considers the (ab)use of forestry concessions as tradable commodities by Asian FDI-benefiting (Foreign Direct Investment) companies, practices that are against forest law and policy in Guyana.

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Talks are underway for the construction of a nuclear power plant and an aluminium smelter in Suriname.

Several of the existing interior airstrips, many of which cannot be monitored because of scarce financial and human resources are hotbeds for drug smuggling and also facilitate the movement of illegal Brazilian miners, a source in the aviation sector has said.

President Bharrat Jagdeo is concerned that even though the country will benefit from the recently announced US$467M debt write-off from the Inter-American Develop-ment Bank (IDB), there will be a reduction in Guyana’s access to concessionary funding.

Barama Company Limited (BCL) is confident of being back in good stead with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) after a pre-audit inspection by the World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) shows that the company has fulfilled most of the corrective actions required.

Increased salaries, improved working conditions and progress, top the list of workers’ expectations as the Chinese company Bosai Minerals Group Co Ltd (BOSAI), gets ready to take the helm of Omai Bauxite Mining Incorporated (OBMI) next week.

Co-authored by Clarence Trotz and Alec Farley, CXC Physics is just the latest offering in the Macmillan Science Series.

The Licence Revenue Office (LRO) has begun issuing and renewing motor vehicle licences for this year and it has extended it working hours to cater for the expected influx of drivers.

Boyo Ramsaroop, who has lived the life of a horticulturalist, political activist and electrical engineer, now wears the cap of a philanthropist and has spent the last month working with several Sophia residents who are facing difficult circumstances.

The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) is urging stakeholders who will interact closely with the visitors for the Cricket World Cup to use the metric system.

The sugar production target for the first crop this year is 99,500 tonnes, a 10% increase over last year.

Brazil’s second largest producer of bio-diesel, Bio-Capital, is still awaiting detailed information on policies and practices from the Guyana Office for Investment (Go-Invest) in order to move ahead with a proposed investment for sugar cane cultivation and ethanol production.

Police are investigating a $9M robbery at Alexander Village which occurred on Thursday last, but have complained about not getting very far because of a lack of adequate information from the victim.

Two men on a motorcycle robbed a Regent Street store on Friday and escaped with an undisclosed sum of money.

Eucryl Anthony Calder who passed away on March 4, will be buried today, Sunday March 18.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) said Value-Added Tax (VAT) and Excise Tax returns for the second tax period are due on Thursday.

Fifty works taking the natural world as their theme by leading Guyanese photographer Robert Fernandes will be on display at the National Gallery beginning on Wednesday.

A 15-year-old boy is missing from his Public Road, Kitty home, after his mother sent him to buy bread on Thursday.

Four men, one of whom was armed with a gun, robbed an East Coast Demerara petrol station on Friday last and carted off a quantity of items.